Score one for the good guys. Gave the psicko a lead injection and saved both of the girls. Hmmm... Just like, uhm where was it again... oh yeah on TV. The entire story line one we've all seen at least a few times in some dramatic cop thriller.

Yesterday's Merc brings up parental concern over the fashion trend to younger ages for butt-enhancing blue jeans or non-existant shorts and baring cleavage and navels. Could this be partially to blame for the rise in pedophile crimes? Nah. Girls have been trying to look attractive since the dawn of time. Can't change that. Getting the bad guys is the next best thing. Finding a way to stop training them would be better.

I see a lot (literally) of this in my own shoppe. The statement du jour is an exposed midriff/belly (preferably flat), with a jewel in the navel. Wonderbras and low-cut top or nothing at all under a silk halter. Lucky Jeans. Period. Low on the waist. As tight as is possible without cutting off circulation. Or shorts with nothing more than a thong. That's the cool part about wartime. It seems to always coincide with skimpy fashion trends. Usually it's genetic as the pool of available men get shipped off and/or don't come back. Don't know why now because there are still a lot of available men running around. But the other cool thing is that having nearly naked women running around is almost always a market catalyst. When one of these young ladies is looking at music books, all of a sudden there's a surge of guys who just got a sudden interest in learning to read music books. So yeah, they get noticed, but that's the point.

I'm at a bit of a loss on the men's fashion statement. Baring their boxers. The back side. Half to three-quarters of their ugly butts showing. The jeans are uhm hooked on only in front. At least one arm is being used constantly to hold them up on one side or the other from falling off completely. Now that's certainly inconvenient. Hate to say it but my first thought on observing these lads is that perhaps they soiled their britches and they've got 'em dropped a bit low so that nothing smears before they get to someplace to take care of it.

Hilarious - so this is how you look masculine in 2002. Makes it kinda' look like you're in diapers. And the girls are out there looking very adult. Need any more evidence of a gender crisis?